What swanky things are you reading?

[blueerica]

Due to my coursework this year, I'm being afforded the opportunity to read a lot of books I've either read before, or have had some interest in reading.

Just read Conquest of America, by Tzevetan Todorov, a compelling case for the sense of otherness, in terms of ethnicity and actually, racism, and what role communication (and definition of communication) played for Columbus, Cortez and Las Casas in the discovery and conquest of the Americas..

I just started reading Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy (the guy who wrote All The Pretty Horses, a book I never read, but remember something about a movie made after it...). Only a chapter in, and there are countless acts of brutal violence, though it seems intriguing, this tale of the Kid, and what I know is to come in the book, a tale of Americas' westward expansion.

I'm pretty stoked about the other books for my Ethnic Literature in America class, though they're all super heavy.

In another class, the Comic Spirit, I'm reading Lysistrata, Aristophanes comedy of acheiving peace for warring Greece through the women's movement to not give the warriors any nookie. Nookie for the win!

I'll also soon be reading Waiting for Godot, and Candide...

Such a happy girl, am I! However, it has made me stop reading the Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I'll have to pick that back up over Spring Break, or after the semester's over...